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A few months ago I got Linda Youngblood, of Manatee Sports, to order me a hundred .280 Remington cases made by Winchester. When they came in they were shiney nickle plated...pretty. Last week I dug them out, ran into the sizer to iron out the necks and put together 20 with my favorite load. This load is up near the top with 150 gr Ballistictips. Hank and I went up to the range, my main purpose to test some 125 Sierra and 180 Nosler BT in my new Ruger No1 Light Sporter. Just before we pulled out of the range to come home, I decided to crank out some rounds in the .280...The first shot out didn't feel right...Nep, you guess it..PRESSURE! The primer was flatten out bad, with cratering! I put the rifle up and when I came home, sat down to figure the problem out. My first thought was, that in my old age, I messed up on my powder setting...I pulled bullets and checked..nope, right on the 50.5 charge. O.K., maybe the necks on that nickle stuff was too thick (as can happen with pistol brass)...I miked the OD of the nickle brass loaded round Vs a brass case loaded round...The same! Now I was really concerned! I always trim/inside neck ream all my once fired brass. Since new brass is ready sized, I wait until once fired. I set up my Forster, adjusted it with a case I keep that is trimed to length..and started to trim/ream...Eureka!..These new cases were thousandths too long in the neck!!! What was happening was I was forcing these loaded rounds into the end of the chamber and swaged the loaded rounds neck..ergo, too tight bullet release = pressure! I put a few loads together in this trimmed cases, went out on my deck, and cranked them into an old stump in the back of our place...normal in all respects. We can not expect the companies to make everthing right. If this brass had run through the factory loading machines, the inspection/trim station would have alarmed. Like we say, "s--- happens!" everyone watch this on the new brass that's coming out..it did not go through the final inspection/trim set on the loading machines...I don't care what the factory says..I've been there on the floor!
Best Regards from the Hammock....James
(Edited by James Gates at 1:30 pm on Jan. 20, 2001)
Best Regards from the Hammock....James
(Edited by James Gates at 1:30 pm on Jan. 20, 2001)